2024: Prof. Dr. Pim van Dijk (NL)

• Current position (2025/2026) an position at the time of the award presentation: Expert in medical physics and Professor of Audiology at the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Groningen (NL)
• 2024 awarded for a neuroscientific study investigating whether tinnitus in humans is linked to abnormal GABA-ergic inhibition. This is a process in which the neurotransmitter GABA reduces the activity of neurons in auditory brain areas.
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2023: Dr. rer. nat. Stephanie Rosemann (DE)

• Current position (2025/2026): Temporary Professorship für Ambulatory Assessment in Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
• At the time of the award presentation, holding the PostDoctoral Position, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology Lab, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
• 2023 awarded for scientific work on the topic of „Neural changes in tinnitus – correlation to cognitive performance“
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2022: Dr. med. univ. Lukas Landegger (AT)

• Current position (2025/2026): Clinician-scientist (otolaryngologist & head and neck surgeon) and Instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
• At the time of the award presentation, holding the position of Resident and Junior Research Group Leader for Otorhinolaryngology at the General Hospital of the City of Vienna and the University Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical University of Vienna
• 2022 awarded for the habilitation (post-doctoral lecturing qualification) “Translational Inner Ear Research – From Bench to Bedside” and other scientific work
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2021: Elouise Koops, MD (NL)

• Current position (2025/2026): Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
• At the time of the award presentation, holding the position of Research Fellow at the Eaton-Peabody Lab, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA
• 2021 awarded for her outstanding doctoral achievement and her further scientific work on the neurophysiological correlates of tinnitus, hearing loss and hyperacusis in old age
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2020: Prof. Dr. rer. nt. Lukas Rüttiger and PD Dr. rer. nat. Winfried Schlee

Dr. rer. nt. Lukas Rüttiger:

• Current position (2025/2026) and position at the time of the award presentation: Graduate biologist and associate professor at the Hearing Research Center of the University Hospital of Otorhinolaryngology, Tübingen, Section for Molecular Hearing Physiology, headed by Prof. Dr. Knipper, Eberhard University of Tübingen
• 2020 awarded for scientifiv work on the relation between tinnitus, the decrease in evoked hyperactivity and the reduction of ‘central neural gain’
• Further information about current scientific work

PD Dr. rer. nat. Winfried Schlee:

• Current position (2025/2026): Professor for Business Informatics / Digital Health, OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil, CH
• At the time of the award presentation, holding the position of Psychologist and Scientific Coordinator TRI, Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University of Regensburg at the Bezirksklinikum
• 2020 awarded for habilitation (post-doctoral lecturing qualification) on the topic: „Neuronal oscillatory activity in tinnitus and the ageing brain”
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2019: Dr. Christopher Cederroth

• Current position (2025/2026): Senior Principal Scientist, University Clinic for ENT Medicine, Tübingen
• At the time of the award presentation, holding the position of Researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, SE
• 2019 awarded for his translational work in basic research on tinnitus and hearing loss.
• Further information about current scientific work